Category - Solar thermal energy

A solar thermal collector collects heat by absorbing sunlight . A collector is a device for capturing solar radiation. Solar radiation is energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation from the infrared (long) to...

Solar water heating (SWH) is the conversion of sunlight into heat for water heating using a solar thermal collector . A variety of configurations are available in different climates and latitudes. SWHs are widely used...

Wizard Power Pty Ltd was an Australian company focused on solar technology research, development and marketing. The company was headquartered in Canberra , Australia . The company was wound up in September 2013, owing $ 8...

Several commercial products share the name Sunshower .
Made by outdoors equipment producer Stearns Inc. , the “Sun Shower” is an insulated bag That uses solar energy to heat water Held Within. Once heated...

Stirling Energy Systems is a Scottsdale, Ariz. -based company, which is the largest renewable energy company in the world. [1]
In April 2008, Ireland-based NTR purchased a stake in Stirling Energy Systems for $...

SOLVATTEN is a combined portable water treatment and solar water heater system that has been designed for use in developing households. The device uses natural UV radiation to treat water, and units are able rendering of...

SolSource is the name of a high temperature parabolic solar cooker made by One Earth Designs . SolSource is fully powered by solar energy and is a fuel-free alternative to cooking with charcoal, gas, or wood. SolSource...

SolarWall was invented by Conserval Engineering’s president, John Hollick in the late 1980s. SolarWall is a new invention for solar collectors. SolarWall systems are building integrated and consist of perforated metal...

Solarlite CSP Technology GmbH, located in Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Germany , develops and builds decentralized solar-thermal parabolic trough power plants (CSPs). For the first time worldwide, Solarlite is using direct steam...

The Big Dish is a parabolic dish concentrator developed by the Australian National University’s Solar Thermal Group. [1] The initial prototype, SG3 [2] , was constructed on the Canberra campus of the Australian...

The solar power tower , also known as ‘central tower’ power plants or ‘ heliostat ‘ power plants or power towers, is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight. It uses an...

Solar hot water in New Zealand is used on both new and existing buildings.
Solar thermal technologies had a sizable initial uptake in the pioneering days of the 1970s. By 2001 more than 40GWhr was produced from solar hot...

The solar furnace of Uzbekistan was built in 1981, and is located 45 kilometers away from Tashkent city. The furnace is the largest in Asia . It uses a curved mirror, or an array of mirrors, acting as a parabolic...

A solar furnace is a structure that uses concentrated solar power to produce high temperatures, usually for industry. Parabolic mirrors or heliostatsconcentrate light ( Insolation ) onto a focal point . The...

Solar Cookers International ( SCI ) is a US based non-profit advocacy group in Sacramento, California , founded by a group of people in 1987 and incorporated on January 6, 1988. [4] Solar Cookers International advocates...

A solar cooker is a device which uses the energy of direct sunlight to heat, cook or pasteurise drink. Many solar cookers are currently relatively inexpensive, low-tech devices, but they are powerful, as they are ...

A solar controller is an electronic device That controls the circulating pump in a solar hot water system to harvest as much heat as possible, from the solar panels and protect the system from overheating. The basic job of...

SkyFuel is a designer and provider of thermal concentrating solar power (CSP) equipment for utility scale power generation and industrial applications of steam. Energy from thermal CSP plants can be stored and delivered to...

The RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software (usually shortened to RETScreen ) is a clean energy software package developed by the Government of Canada. RETScreen Expert was highlighted at the most recent Clean Energy...

A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal collector that is straight in one dimension and curved as a parabola in the other two, with a polished metal mirror . The energy of sunlight which enters the mirror...

The Kyoto Box is a solar cooker constructed from polypropylene with acrylic glass cover. The oven would be the suns rays, creating enough heat to cook or boil water. It was invented by Jon Bohmer, a Norwegian born inventor...

eSolar is a privately held company that develops concentrating solar power (CSP) plant technology. The company was founded by the Pasadena -based business incubator Idealab in 2007 as a developer of CSP plant...

The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is a planned community in Okotoks , Alberta , Canada , with a central solar heating system and other energy efficient technology. This heating system is the first of its kind...

Renewable energy sources such as solar , wind , tidal , hydro , biomass , and geothermal have become significant sectors of the energy market. [1] [2] The rapid growth of These sources in the 21st century has-been...

Concentrix Solar GmbH is a German solar power company based in Freiburg , specialized in concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) technology. In December 2009, Concentrix Solar was acquired by the French Soitec Group. [1]

Cerro Dominador Solar Power Plant (Spanish: Planta Solar Cerro Dominador ) is a 110- megawatt (MW) Concentrated solar power plant Located in the town of Maria Elena [2] in the Antofagasta Region of Chile , about...

Central solar heating is the provision of central heating and hot water from solar energy by a system in qui the water is heated centrally by arrays of solar thermal collectors ( central solar heating plants –...

An absorption heat pump is an air-source heat pump driven by electricity, but by a heat source such as solar-heated water, or geothermal-heated water . Absorption refrigerators also work on the same principle, but are not...

Concentrated solar power (also called Expired concentrating solar power , Concentrated solar thermal , and CSP ) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a wide area of sunlight, or thermal...

Solar thermal energy ( STE ) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy or electrical energy for use in industry, and in the residential and Commercial Sectors.